Last Modified: Friday, January 18, 2013 at 5:13 p.m.

In this area, folks can tune in on WUNJ-TV39, which in the Wilmington area is on Time Warner Cable’s basic Channel 6.

Colin’s conversation with host D.G. Martin will repeat at 5 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24, on the same channel.

For those who came in late, “The Memory Thief” is a novel of romantic obsession with psychic overtones. A mountain climber plunges to his death off Mount McKinley — but finds himself somehow still alive. His wife grieves in the Pacific Northwest (while reliving the highs and lows of their relationship). Meanwhile, a high school teacher in Wilmington awakes from a coma with an array of peculiar habits — and a riveting vision of a beautiful woman and a little boy waiting on the end of a pier.

“In every UCLA writing class I teach online, there are always one or two … writers who knock me out at the first sentence,” wrote novelist Caroline Leavitt (“Pictures of You”). “Emily Colin was one of them. She was just starting ‘The Memory Thief’ in my class, but the book was already so wondrously strange, beautifully written, and compelling, that I knew she had something extraordinary on her hands.”

For more of Leavitt’s conversation with Colin about the book, click here: http://carolineleavittville.blogspot.com/2012/08/emily-colin-talks-about-memory-thief.html

<p>Wilmington's own Emily Colin will talk about her debut novel, “The Memory Thief” at noon Sunday (Jan. 20) on “North Carolina Bookwatch,” the weekly book-chat show on UNC Public Television.</p><p>In this area, folks can tune in on WUNJ-TV39, which in the Wilmington area is on Time Warner Cable's basic Channel 6.</p><p>Colin's conversation with host D.G. Martin will repeat at 5 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24, on the same channel.</p><p>For those who came in late, “The Memory Thief” is a novel of romantic obsession with psychic overtones. A mountain climber plunges to his death off Mount McKinley — but finds himself somehow still alive. His wife grieves in the Pacific Northwest (while reliving the highs and lows of their relationship). Meanwhile, a high school teacher in Wilmington awakes from a coma with an array of peculiar habits — and a riveting vision of a beautiful woman and a little boy waiting on the end of a pier.</p><p>“In every UCLA writing class I teach online, there are always one or two … writers who knock me out at the first sentence,” wrote novelist Caroline Leavitt (“Pictures of You”). “Emily Colin was one of them. She was just starting 'The Memory Thief' in my class, but the book was already so wondrously strange, beautifully written, and compelling, that I knew she had something extraordinary on her hands.”</p><p>For more of Leavitt's conversation with Colin about the book, click here: http://carolineleavittville.blogspot.com/2012/08/emily-colin-talks-about-memory-thief.html</p>